♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (guitar music) (upbeat music) - Hey, happy Friday.

Oh, this is such an interesting story.

It's so silly!

Do you like silly stories?

You're gonna like this one.

Let me tell you about it, but first let me tell you thank you for coming this morning to our PBS Classroom.

It is so great to see you again.

My name is Mrs. Hammack, and I'm here to help you practice all the skills you need to be excellent readers and writers.

Well, I'm gonna tell you, Melinda Long and David Shannon must have done a lot of practice with their skills because they are excellent writers.

This story is called "Pirates Don't Change Diapers".

You can tell already that it's silly.

How do you know?

You're right.

It's a silly story.

You might like to read the silly story especially on a Friday.

It's good for a laugh.

You might enjoy it.

So, check for it at your county public library or.

Yep, on Sora.

I think you'll enjoy it.

It's a funny one.

Hey, let's see who is in the number one spot on our Sora countdown.

Do you have any guesses?

Do you think it's the same as last week?

Let's find out.

All right, drum roll for the number one spot.

Here we go.

Heaton Bulldogs!

Wow!

Great job Heaton Bulldogs!

That is awesome.

You are at the top of the heap this week.

Good for you!

Wow, I'm so impressed.

Well, hm.

There was something else I needed to tell you.

Oh, that's right.

I would love to send you a free activity book.

Please send me a letter.

My mailbox was empty and I felt so sad because I want to know what you're reading.

You can really tell me anything you'd like me to know but I'd love to know what you're reading so that I can tell other boys and girls.

Because if you like it, chances are someone else will.

So, write to me here in our PBS Classroom and I will send you an activity book as a thank you for writing to us and sharing your reading with us, okay?

Make sure you include your address so I know where to send you a book, okay?

Hey, it's and we need to get started by waking up our brain.

And now you know the drill.

We're gonna train our ears for sound.

We are gonna play two games today because it's Friday.

So we're gonna play the blending game.

I'm gonna tell you some sounds and I want you to put them together so that you can tell me what my word is.

And then, we're gonna switch it up and do it backwards.

I'm gonna tell you a word and I want you to take it apart.

That's called segmenting, okay?

Both of those skills will help you when you're sounding out words to read and also when you're sounding out words to write.

All right, here we go.

Blending our first word.

Here it is.

I'm gonna tell you four sounds.

You tell me what my word is, ready?

/H/, /ar/, /d/.

Oh, that's only three sounds, sorry.

/H/, /ar/, /d/.

Hard, good job.

All right.

Three more.

Ready?

/Ch/, /ar/, /t/.

/Ch/, /ar/, /t/.

Chart.

Great job.

All right, now we're gonna do the reverse.

That means I'm gonna tell you the whole word and you're gonna take it apart.

Are you ready?

Car, car.

Let's do it together.

/C/, /ar/.

Good job, two sounds.

All right, the next one.

Yard, yard.

/Y/, /ar/, /d/.

Yard.

Great job.

Where is the r sound in the word yard?

Right, /Y/, /ar/, /d/.

Where is the r sound in the word /c/, /ar/?

/C/, /ar/, it's at the end.

Good job.

All right, your ears have been trained all week long for that r sound.

Now we're gonna use our eyes and we're gonna put that r sound into practice.

Are you ready to try it?

I knew it.

This is our star card.

It is an r-controlled vowel.

It means that ar is controlling the sound that it makes.

So ar says /r/.

Ar says /r/, good job.

All right, let's take a look at the word I have here and let's practice blending it by saying the sounds and putting them together.

/Sm/, /ar/, /t/.

/Sm/, /ar/, /t/.

Smart.

Smart.

You should know that one, right?

'Cause smart is your middle name.

Just kidding.

But, you are smart.

What if I changed smart?

What if I got.

What if I delete the beginning sound?

If I delete the beginning sound that means I'm gonna get rid of it.

Now, smart becomes mart.

Great job.

What if I want to change mart to cart?

That's right.

The m goes away and next I have a c. Cart, cart.

Good.

What if I want to change this to chart?

Chart, right.

All I need is that digraph in the front, chart.

Chart.

Great reading.

All right, you did that really well.

Your brain should be nice and warmed up for our story about "Charm Scarves".

Do you remember who Charm is?

That's right, he's that naughty little kitten that's at the yarn shop with Carly.

Carly's making scarves and selling them in her shop, remember?

And the problem that we found in the story was that Charm likes to tangle up all the yarn and get them mixed together.

So let's see what happens in our story today.

Let me turn the page.

You ready to read?

Good, here we go.

Carly tries hard to make the yarn tidy.

She tugs this part and that part.

None of the yarn will untie.

Carly cuts and cuts.

She must put the yarn bits in a round basket.

How will Carly make scarves now?

She thinks up a smart plan.

Carly makes red scarves with dots.

She makes scarves with green dots.

She calls them Charm scarves.

Wow, how creative!

Do you see how she took a problem that she had and she made something entirely new.

Isn't that awesome?

Have you ever done that when you've had a problem and figured out a creative way to solve it?

That's so cool.

I know sometimes we can have great ideas that start out with a problem.

Let's see if we can find some of those ar words.

Did you see some in the story that we were reading?

I thought so.

All right, we're not gonna concentrate too much on her name or yarn because we know that that's gonna be all through the story, right?

Because that's what the story is about.

Did you see the word hard and part, good.

How about, what else?

Did you see another one?

Oh, yep, there's Charm's name.

I noticed something else in our story.

Did you notice it too?

That's right.

Take a look at this.

What is that?

None.

And did you also see round?

Isn't that amazing?

That is so cool.

Do you see how all the parts come together to help us read and learn about how stories are?

We can read all these words.

Those high-frequency words are words that we've been practicing and they all come together in the story.

Isn't that so cool?

And you know what else, the piece that we haven't done today that we won't do right now, but maybe you can do at home.

You can take what you've learned about the ar sound and our high-frequency words and make your own story.

Wouldn't that be awesome?

Oh, I hope you do and I hope you send it to me 'cause I'd love to read it so I can see how great and smart your brain is getting.

All right, you did a great job reading the story.

And now it's time for us to review all of our high-frequency words from this week.

Let me get my chart and we're going to read them.

We're going to spell them and we're going to write them.

So, I hope you have something to write with so that we can get them locked in our brains.

Here we go.

Only, O-N-L-Y, only.

Round, R-O-U-N-D, round.

None, N-O-N-E, none.

Large, L-A-R-G-E, large.

Four, F-O-U-R. Now remember this one is the number four.

If it was a present for you, that would just be F-O-R, but when we have the U there that means it's the number four.

And put, P-U-T, put.

All right, I'm gonna say a sentence.

I want you to listening for those high-frequency words and tell me what you hear, ready?

I only put four large stickers on the page.

Did you hear him?

I only put four large stickers on the page.

Great listening.

All right.

We have one last thing to work on as a review.

We worked on irregular plural nouns.

Remember, a singular noun means one.

A plural noun means more than one.

And when we're talking about irregular, that means they are not regular.

That means we have to do something different when they become plural, instead of just adding an s. So we have been practicing them all week and I thought it would be good idea for us to review all the ones we've seen.

Here we go.

Here's the singular side, tooth.

Here's the plural teeth.

Foot, feet.

Man, men.

Woman, women.

Ox, oxen.

Goose, geese.

And then we have some that don't change at all.

If it's singular, it's moose.

If it's plural, it's moose.

If it's singular, it's deer.

If it's plural, it's deer.

Singular sheep, plural sheep.

Singular fish, plural fish.

Then we have one person, many people.

One mouse, three mice.

Leaf and leaves, elf and elves, calf and calves, child and children.

Wow, that's a lot of irregulars, isn't it?

I want you to looking for those as you read this week in your stories and practice writing some stories with those words or sentences.

It will help you figure it out and make sure you get it right every time.

Thanks for joining me today.

Let's sing.

♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you on Monday ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ Have a great weekend.

I'll see you next week.

Bye-bye!

(guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (guitar music)